On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 7:27 PM David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 9:42 AM Marc Millas <marc.mil...@mokadb.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to load data from a file via file_fdw or COPY.. its a >> postgres 14 cluster >> >> but.. One date (timestamp) column is written french order and another >> column is written english order. Data comes from a state owned entity so >> asking for a normalization may take ages. >> >> obviously I could load as char and then apply an appropriate >> transformation. no pb. >> But is there a direct way to do this ? >> > > Probably no - casting formats via locale cannot be specified at that scope > when using copy. Either the cast for a given single setting produces the > correct result or it doesn't. If you need a custom cast like this you have > to get away from COPY first. Usually that is best done after importing > data to a temporary table as text. > > David J. > So, creating a foreign table with varchar type, and then doing the insert as select with the appropriate format.. clear. somewhat sad as it was a one step process with the former oracle db we get rid off. Marc
